FLORA OF EASTERN TROPICAL AFRICA. 4.25 
bus vel vix superantibus; perianthii segmentis in medio late 
purpureo suffusis et lineatis, margine scarioso viridescentibus vel 
albescentibus, exterioribus late lanceolatis obtusis, interioribus 
spathulatis quam illa latioribus; staminibus perianthio paullo 
brevioribus, omnibus fertilibus; filamentis Jineari-subulatis 
supra basin subito expansam constrictis ; antheris flavis oblongis 
versatilibus dorsifixis; ovario ovoideo; stylo eylindrico peri- 
anthium equante, stigmate capitato; capsula ovoidea tenui mem- 
branacea semina plura nigra oblonga complanata inclusa exhibente. 
Hab. Jomvu, Rabai Hills, Oct. 1885, and Miranakidiri-porini, 
between Zanzibar and Uyui, Sept. 3, 1886: W. E. Taylor. 
The ovoid bulb is 13 inch long by ? inch thick, aud crowned 
for a length of 3 inches with the whitish membranous remains of 
last year’s leaves; those of the present season are only beginning 
to shoot and about 3 inches long. Tie long smooth naked scape 
is nearly 2 feet long below the short laxly-flowered raceme (4-5 
inches). The white scarious bracts are marked with 3-4 
median reddish-brown converging veins, and are 4 lines long 
below, the upper ones shorter. The perianth-segments are 
suffused and veined with crimson and have a greenish or whitish 
scarious border; the three exterior are broadly lanceolate and 
64 lines long by 2 in breadth, with 7 nerves (two of which, 
however, only run to within a third of the tip); the interior 
are spathulate, with a narrower reddish centre and a broader 
hyaline margin than the outer three, which they equal in length 
or are slightly shorter, but are 3 lines broad. The stamens are 
all fertile. The filaments are 5 lines long and are constricted 
above the broad rounded base (14 line long); the anthers are 
2} lines. The ovary is 2 lines long, the style 5 lines. The thin 
transparent capsule measures 4 inch long by 3 broad, and ullows 
the several dead-black flattened seeds to be seen through the 
walls. The latter are 4 inch long by 1? line broad. 
Differs (e descriptione in Engler’s Jahrb. xv. p. 472) from 
A. Steudneri, Schweinf. & Engl., from Kalabat, in having bracts 
only a little more than half the size, while the petals are more 
than twice as broad, with red (not green) nerves, and the seeds 
twice as large. A. purpurascens, Engl. (ib.), an allied plant, is 
described with a globose bulb crowned with the persistent fibrils 
of past leaves, a raceme 8 inches long, bracts nearly twice as 
long as in Taylor’s plaut, smaller narrower petals, and smaller 
fruits and seeds. 
